Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulse and breathing have stopped. Thus anencephalics would be taken off the respirator at set intervals to see whether spontaneous breathing had ceased. When it stopped, the infants would be pronounced dead and their organs taken. The few medical centers like Loma Linda that handle anencephalic transplants currently follow similar protocols...
...hold direct talks with the guerrillas. Last week he moved to honor those pledges, restoring civil liberties, disbanding an unpopular ad hoc court system and inviting the rebels for face-to-face negotiations. But the coincidental arrest in Nicaragua of five opposition leaders and hints that tough measures might follow approval of new contra aid strengthened suspicions about Ortega's motives. "All the Sandinistas care about now is stopping that aid," says an opposition leader in Nicaragua. "They will withdraw their concessions as soon as they have achieved this...
...help corporations hold down medical costs, a whole new industry of medical efficiency experts has sprung up to track employee health care. Cost Care, based in Huntington Beach, Calif., monitors medical treatment for 4,000 U.S. companies. The doctors and registered nurses who work for the firm follow the progress of hospitalized patients and sometimes give advice on appropriate treatment. Cost Care boasts that it can cut corporate health costs as much...
Most of the 40,000 polygamists scattered throughout Utah are peaceful. They follow the admonition of Mormon Leader Brigham Young: "The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." For the devout, polygamy means a chaste life where sex is initiated mainly at the invitation of the wife. In the 19th century, polygamy served to cement ties among Mormon families...
James is making sure he will not follow a similar path...